ACOM at American Meteorological Society - Phoenix, Arizona

ACOM staff joined other AMS members at the annual meeting of the American Meteorological Society in Phoenix, Arizona during 6–10 January, 2019. Although the partial government shutdown prevented some Federal employees from attending the meeting, ACOM scientists from UCAR still presented talks and posters during the week:

Mon, 11:00 – 11:15 am, Bill Randel, Diagnosing Stratospheric Water Vapor Relationships to the Tropical Cold Point Tropopause (Invited talk, Session 3 Impact of Deep Convection, Volcanic Eruptions, and Large Fires on Water Vapor, Aerosols, and Ozone in the Middle Atmosphere)

Wed, 4:00 – 6:00 pm, Rebecca Hornbrook, Global Seasonal Distributions of HCN and Acetonitrile, (Poster Session 2 Atmospheric Chemistry Poster Session II)

Wed, 4:00 – 6:00 pm, Alma Hodzic, Towards Better Ozone Forecast over CONUS Using Improved Clouds from Rapid Refresh and Satellite Retrievals in WRF-Chem, (Poster Session 2 Atmospheric Chemistry Poster Session II)

Thurs, 8:45 – 9:00 am, Teresa Campos, Observations of Major Carbon Species in Western US Wildfire Smoke Plumes during July and August, 2018, (talk, Session 11B From Combustion to Composition: New Insights into Smoke Chemistry from WE-CAN, FIREX and Other Recent Efforts—Part II)

Thurs, 10:30 – 10:45 am, Eric Apel, Chemical Composition and Evolution from Western Wildfires in 2018: Highlighting Results from the NCAR Trace Organic Gas Analyzer, (talk, Session 11B From Combustion to Composition: New Insights into Smoke Chemistry from WE-CAN, FIREX and Other Recent Efforts—Part II)

Thurs, 3:30 – 4:00 pm, Guy Brasseur, Observations of Chemical Species in the Middle Atmosphere: Historical Evolution and New Perspectives, (Invited talk; Session 9 Future Observations of the Middle Atmosphere—Needs and Capabilities)

Thurs, 4:00 – 4:15 pm, Siyuan Wang, Airborne Measurements of Oxygenated Volatile Organic Compounds (OVOCs) during ATom: Implications for a Currently Unaccounted Source in the Remote Troposphere, (talk; Session 13A Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling and Observational Analysis—Part VIII)

Thurs, 4:15 – 4:30 pm, Mary Barth, Analysis of Convective Transport and Scavenging of Formaldehyde and Peroxides for Airmass Storms Observed during SEAC4RS Storms (talk, Session 13A Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling and Observational Analysis—Part VIII)